Everybody Rides the Carousel

This classic animated film from the Hubley Studios accurately and amusingly illustrates the eight stages of life as defined by the noted psychologist Erik Erikson. Part I covers three periods of life: the newborn, the toddler, and childhood, from the baby's first cognitive emotions through an emerging sense of autonomy and the new senses of initiative and guilt. Part II illustrates the child's struggles from early childhood to adolescence and the search for identity, ending with young adulthood and the feelings of intimacy versus isolation. Part III is the longest ride on the carousel of life, the stage of the adult, in which animated vignettes illustrate adult development from attempts at teenage communication through the various ways elderly people face aging and the idea of their approaching death. (Verleiher-Text)